Globalization, Interconnectedness, and Wal-Mart the Bully - The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First CenturyL. Friedman Thomas New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005; 488 pages, 27.30 hardcover, ISBN 0-374-29288-4
Assume that I am starting a business in Madison, Wisconsin, producing desks for professors,” I tell my students at the beginning of a lecture about Marxism. “I ask the Business School dean how much he paid for his current inventory of worn-out desks. The actual price was $500. How much does he tell...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2006
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Business ethics quarterly
Year: 2006, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 289-304 |
Review of: | The world is flat (New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) (Collins, Denis)
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Summary: | Assume that I am starting a business in Madison, Wisconsin, producing desks for professors,” I tell my students at the beginning of a lecture about Marxism. “I ask the Business School dean how much he paid for his current inventory of worn-out desks. The actual price was $500. How much does he tell me?”“Four hundred fifty dollars!” a student shouts from the back of the room. |
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ISSN: | 2153-3326 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/beq200616213 |